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Saturday, 25 February 2017

Hey there LIMettes, we're back with another challenge for you andit's the last one of our Birthday Month so we hope you'll join us!We are delighted to welcome back as our final birthday super sponsorand extra-special talented Guest Designer ... Bev from UnikoPlease read on for more on the challenge and what Bev and the Design Team have created for you but first ... Bev and her team at Uniko are also having a birthday celebration today as the 5th Birthday BIG REVEAL, RELEASE and GIVEAWAY of new stamps takes place over on her blog HERE so do make sure you check that out too! HERE's the link to the shop for all those new goodies ... from 9am GMTSo today we have a sketch for you to get your teeth into over the week and in our fantastic, fresh and classy colour combo! Feel free to flip/rotatethe sketch so long as we can see the elements of it within your card anddo keep it CLEAN & SIMPLE as that's what we love!

Here's what Bev and the design team have to inspire you and do check out their

personal blogs if you have the time as there could be a couple of bonus cards there too!

space and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with

our 'How to Play' page at the top.

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

We are hoping to announce our winners of all the birthday challenges this month

Friday, 24 February 2017

You had us all smiling with your entries into our last challenge. What a creative bunch of people you are! There were some really stunning designs and such fantastic use of the challenge theme that it was so hard to pick just 3 people to showcase.

Oh, and remember to pop back in early March to see if you are the winner from that challenge.

Julie's sun and rain is a perfect design for this challenge. Her use of heat embossing and watercolor makes this a lovely card.

Congratulations ladies and please help yourself to a ShowCASe badge

from the page at the top of the blog with our thanks. We hope you'll display it proudly on your individual blogs.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy ofour ShowCASe badge this week. Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.We'll also be showCASing their cards on our Facebook pageso why not hop on over and give us a 'thumbs up'!Here's thelink you need to take you there.

space and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with

our 'How to Play' page at the top.

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

Friday, 17 February 2017

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post.We had such a super turn-out for our first week of birthday celebrations! Thank you all so much for joining in & helping us start the celebrations off.

As this is our birthday month we will be picking a winner each week, as well as the showcase entries. We'll be announcing all the winners together at the end of the celebrations so please
pop back in early March to see if you are one of our lucky winners.

But to the showcase!It's never an easy job to select our favourites but we do love seeing

CAS at it's best. This design has kept to a minimum number of elements and incorporated the required colour into the enamel dots only. We loved the beautiful crisp and clean layout with the fun quotation die cuts. A terrific card for the guy in your life!

We were wowed by the eye-catching and vibrant citrus colours on this card. There is a fabulous amount of detail in this lovely design. The discrete stitched dies and smooth dots add texture and the raised flower heads give dimension. Something for everyone here!

Techniques abound in this gorgeous card and it had us all swooning. From the water coloured and emboss resist background, through the shimmery die-cuts to the simplistic yet elegant design, this is such a stunning, beautiful and extremely CAS card.

Here the opulent and vibrant colours with that richness that the gold detail adds really caught our eyes. Those colourful and modern geometric shapes add a stunning contrast to the delicate treatment on the sentiment.

Congratulations ladies and please help yourself to a ShowCASe badge

from the page at the top of the blog with our thanks.

We hope you'll display it proudly on your individual blogs.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful trio and worthy ofour ShowCASe badge this week. Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.We'll also be showCASing their cards on our Facebook pageso why not hop on over and give us a 'thumbs up'!Here's thelink you need to take you there.

... and in case you've never come across Seven Hills Crafts here's a little bio

"As Less is More was the first challenge I ever played in, I am always thrilled to support it, and to play along whenever time permits which is not as often as I like these days! My store, Seven Hills Crafts currently stocks over 6500 products most of which are perfect for the Clean & Simple Crafter. We specialise in importing quality products from the USA and Japan and ship worldwide (although not back to America) and provide daily inspiration on our blog with our talented Design Team."

So what have we got in store to challenge you for this week?

Well for some it's the dreaded ONE LAYER card

... and here's what Tara and the design team have to inspire you and please pay them

a visit this week if you have time as there could be a couple of extras on their

space and do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with

our 'How to Play' page at the top.

We hope you'll feel inspired to play along with us and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our ShowCASe favourites from the previous week's challenge.

Friday, 10 February 2017

Hi there LIMettes it's time for our weekly ShowCASe post. You've certainly made this the most difficult task EVER! So many outstanding, crisp, clean and simple designs with balloons. Masses of superb inspiration in onechallenge and you are all worthy of a showCASe badge BUT we have to limit it.Being the first week of our newly designed blog and our birthday month we are feeling super generous ... and can't wait to dole out the new-style badges!After much debate and scratching of heads this week we have5 lucky ShowCASe cardsfor you so here goes in order of entry ...

Kajcyika
Here with a super clean and fresh design and a fun take with
the hot air balloon Kajcyika shows how even a mistake can become
a masterpiece with the scrunched up circular background! Beautiful
eye-popping colours and so perfectly executed too.

TaeEun
The split panel with the beautifully blended cloudy sky disappearing
behind creates a wonderful pop of interest to the card and who can
resist that adorable little dog clinging on for dear life as the balloon
takes him off into the clouds. CAS and perfect as ever.

Hannelie never fails to impress with her eye-popping geometric CAS
designs with stunning use of colour. Here the polka dot balloon is
full of dimension and shimmering colour combos making the card
literally jump out of the screen and float off into the sky.

Izzy
Izzy's chic and sophisticated feminine image teamed with
a heart shaped balloon makes for a fabulous and clever idea.
Combining the love and romance with and a brilliant fun sentiment!
Simple CAS perfection.

TrinaP
Well who would have thought that blue could be so fabulous.
So many tones and shades with such accurate blending of colour.
A beautiful clean and crisp design with the images placed in the top corner
and balanced perfectly with the bold, dimensional sentiment.

HUGE Congratulations ladies and please help yourself to our very first issue of the redesigned ShowCASe badge, from the page at the top of the blog, with our thanks. We hope you'll display it proudly on your individual blogs.

We're sure you'll agree these are a wonderful bundle of inspiration and worthy of our ShowCASe badge this week. Do pop along and congratulate them on their win.We'll also be showCASing their cards on our Facebook pageso why not hop on over and give us a 'thumbs up'!Here's thelink you need to take you there.

Do check our Challenge Guidelines at the top right of the blog along with our page 'How to Play'.

We hope you feel inspired to play along and have some fun.

Don't forget to check out our NEW LOOK Facebook Page slideshows, throughout the week HERE especially on Wednesday, when we showcase our random selection of early entries to the challenge and Fridays, when we'll be revealing our favourites from the previous week's challenge.